Plant health company Verdesian Life Sciences took the media behind the gates of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico this week to see where the technology for its plant health product Take Off was discovered. The technology increases the metabolism in plants to help them grow better. “From the 1920s to 1970s, farmers saw a nice increase in crop yields per acre with mechanization and hybrid seed,” says J.J. Grow, CEO of Verdesian. “But yields have slowed down drastically since then....More

The Twin Cities, MN, is home to major agriculture companies, so our staff, all local, are privy to talk around town about these giants like Cargill and fertilizer company Mosaic. Today while I was driving in our first major snowstorm of the season I heard on our local 830 WCCO radio station an interview with John VomHoff Jr., staff reporter for the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal....More

Getting the most out of N is increasingly important for a crop production budget. Enhanced efficiency N is available in two ways: stabilizers and controlled release. Both types of technology help maximize nitrogen’s availability to a crop....More

The recent explosion in West, Texas, has put anhydrous ammonia safety in the news, raising the question of whether the same catastrophe could happen on farms. The chemical compound, rich in nitrogen, is commonly used on farms to fertilizer crops....More

Every year, corn growers face the challenge of applying the optimum amount of nitrogen (N) in the right place at the right time to maximize corn production and minimize nutrient loss. Soil and weather conditions can sometimes interfere with applying N at the right time.
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